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"According to the exhibition, many Brutalist buildings “face widespread public aversion” and are dubbed as “ugly” structures globally. However, there is simultaneously a growing recognition of their cultural value, sparking preservation efforts. In fact, the exhibition explores the options these structures are left with, be it renovation or demolition, and the challenges accompanying these decisions." Brutalism enthusiasts and critics alike should visit our latest exhibition, Capital Brutalism! Learn more about it in this article from Arch Daily.

On this episode, we talk about a house that unites modernity and tradition in Italy. Link to full interview in the post:

I value how this show innovatively highlights the physical relationship to interior design.

Saterday last day of our exhibition  ‘Brutal Utilism’at Gallery Neck of the Woods in RotterdamFriday and Saturday  13:00 - 17:00artists:Susanne Albrecht (DU)Art van Triest (NL)Mirjam Berloth (NL)Lisbeth Parisius (DK/NL)Leen Van DierenDonck (NL)Lieven de Beek (BE)Paul Vinken (NL)Jeroen Arians (NL)Adress:Heer Bokelweg 1573032 AD Rotterdam  Brutal Utilism: Revealing the material and questioning the utilisation. What is the use? What is it made of?The undressing of the facade. Inside and out. How is it constructed and for whom is it made to inhabit? Art and architecture; A brutal and logical marriage.

This issue focused on the most potent and consequential revolution in 20th-century art—conceptual art—and on the architecture that has attempted to replicate it. Advocates of conceptual art—including Nana Last and Sanford Kwinter here—maintain that modern self-consciousness (launched in art most notably by Marcel Duchamp) rules out any simplicity, any innocent suspension of disbelief required by art as it once was experienced in intuitively known and created “worlds.” Some, like critic Arthur Danto, go further, saying that when Andy Warhol reproduced a Brillo Box, art became whatever anyone called art, not something with a special essence. The conceptualist position, while offering a convincing picture of a new cultural condition—we are doomed and blessed by heightened self-awareness—draws too heavy-handedly, I believe, a picture of intellectual and cultural progress. New brain science is revealing that even as our mental sophistication increases, we remain “hardwired” for primitive, bodily, tacit thoughts and feelings. And many fine architects and artists revel in that fact. Not only do we remain capable of experiencing “traditional” works of art and architecture as opening up ways of knowing through feeling—Bach’s Cello Suites move us to grief; Durham Cathedral insinuates its sturdy grandeur into our bodily sensations; we share the torment of Michelangelo in his Bound Slave—it is also true that great nonconceptual art and architecture are still made: we experience as irreducibly fecund the creations of many contemporaries —Tadao Ando, Louise Bourgeois, Rafael Moneo, Richard Serra, Alvaro Siza … The kind of response—aesthetic—we have to the 460 BCE bronze Zeus of Artemisium can (still) be elicited by new art and architecture. —William S. Saunders 2003 (excerpted from the introduction)

I have recently published two articles. The first one is an exhibition review for "Beyond: Tadao Ando and Art" at Curator: The Museum Journal. In this paper, I tried to explore whether an exhibition about a well-known architect is a challenge or opportunity. This exhibition at HEM was certainly pleasant but also reveals that big name's exhibition is quite tricky. The other one is about Chinese rural revitalization through art at International Journal of Arts Management. This interesting case study of Qingtian reveals a different project approach, which contains a well-balanced stakeholder management. The entire community and its relationship to the arts is continuously observed. #TadaoAndo #ArchitectureExhibition #Qingtian #RuralDevelopment https://lnkd.in/gK2BFgAD https://lnkd.in/gEjcHvSZ

ART-CHITECTURE The Extensible Spatial Metaphor EYECANDIES @eyecandiescn × Kui Yuan Gallery @kuiyuangallery , Shanghai, China 16 Dec 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 Revisiting the expressive potential and interpretative possibilities of architectural thinking, as a system with the capability of directing artistic and intellectual practices, it may extend beyond the material construction in a traditional sense and could explore broader multimedia realms to establish direct connections between notions and reality, also between visual representations and narratives of conceptual thinking, thereby directly generating expressions. This allows for the ideologies derived from it to react dynamically, rather than merely as a priori theoretical self-consistency, and may even potentially be stimulated and amplified by the creative thinking outputs themselves. Thus, the imaginative capacity of artistic expression metaphorically signifies the content of imagination, and such transference or interpretation need not point to external materiality but shifts the focus to internal imagination only through the experiences gained from external practices. #JXYStudio #culture #art #architecture #exhibition https://lnkd.in/g26RCvab

Can mass-produced objects be an applied art that is part of everyday life? This is what Henry Dreyfuss - the famous American industrial designer whose work and influence from the mid-20th century can still be seen today - argued. 💡 Do you agree with him? 🤔 You can read more about Dreyfuss here! 👉 https://bit.ly/3A46dBZ #historyofindustrialdesign #designhistory #polaroid

I love how you can see through these three images how a botanical painting can be the inspiration for a tile design. An interesting insight into the creative process.

When investing in classic designs you need to understand the time they were created in. With this documentary series we want to give some insight into the importance of our classic designers and the designs we reissue.